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7/23/2011

Class Warrior-in-Chief awash in cash from Wall Street, Fatcats

Filed under: General — Karl @ 10:11 am



[Posted by Karl]

As Pres. Obama prattles on about the evils of tax breaks for corporate jets, the Center for Responsive Politics notes:

President Barack Obama has relied more on well-connected Wall Street figures to fund his re-election than he did four years ago when he campaigned as an outsider and an underdog.

One-third of the money Obama’s elite fund-raising corps has raised on behalf of his re-election has come from the financial sector ***.

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Meanwhile, employees of law firms and lobbying shops are responsible for at least $6.9 million so far this year, money which has gone to the Obama re-elect campaign and the DNC.

During Obama’s presidential bid four years ago, individuals in this economic sector were responsible for a minimum of $16.1 million — with the legal industry being the No. 1 industry among all of Obama’s bundlers.

This is no shocker.  Obama’s 2008 campaign received loads of cash from people and groups associated with the top ten issuers of subprime loans.  He then packed the key economic positions in his White House with the people he claimed caused the financial crisis.

Indeed, according to the Center for Public Integrity:

More than two years after President Obama took office vowing to banish “special interests” from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests ***.

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Overall, 184 of 556, or about one-third, of Obama bundlers or their spouses joined the administration in some role. But the percentages are much higher for the big-dollar bundlers. Nearly 80 percent of those who collected more than $500,000 for Obama took “key administration posts,” as defined by the White House. More than half the ambassador nominees who were bundlers raised more than half a million.

Politico* details some of these cases, including Steve Westly, a major investor in the electric car company Tesla, who bundled up to $200,000 for the president this cycle — while his company received a $465 million loan from the Department of Energy.

Moreover, handing out those plum jobs and ambassadorships creates a vicious cycle:

[I]ncumbency can also complicate fund-raising. Only about one in five of the supporters who bundled checks for Mr. Obama last time appear on the list disclosed by his campaign Friday.

One reason for the drop-off: Upon taking office, Mr. Obama appointed dozens of his top fundraisers to ambassadorships, government advisory boards or jobs in his administration, perches from which they may be prohibited from raising campaign money for the president. One such supporter, Matthew Barzun, resigned in April as the United States ambassador to Sweden to become the Obama campaign’s national finance chairman.

Mr. Obama, unlike his Republican opponents, has made a point of swearing off contributions from registered lobbyists and corporate political action committees.

But the president’s bundlers include business executives whose companies have substantial interests before the federal government. Marc Benioff, who raised more than $500,000, is also chairman of Salesforce.com, a company whose software the Obama administration has adopted for wide use in federal agencies. Another bundler, Michael Kempner, is president of the MWW Group, a national public affairs company that has a lobbying practice in Washington.

TIME’s Michael Scherer has details on Kempner, not to mention influence seekers like Drug giant Pfizer’s top government relations executive, Sally Susman, Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen, and Kenneth Jarin, the co-partner in charge of government relations at Ballard Spahr, to name but a few.  Obama’s lobbyist ban seems to be as much a dodge as it was in 2008.  Pres. Obama’s pretensions to populism were a scam then; it’s simply getting worse — and more obvious — as we approach the 2012 campaign.

* HotAir-link to observe Patterico’s Politico boycott.

–Karl

154 Responses to “Class Warrior-in-Chief awash in cash from Wall Street, Fatcats”

  1. Good for me, but not for thee. The hypocrite-in-chief strikes again.

    I hear that Lenin & Stalin liked to hang out in the Romanov palaces, too.

    Icy Texan (90394c)

  2. Bribes and kickbacks have been around since the founding of our Representative Republic. Is it the power that corrupts, or do the corrupt aspire to obtain the power? I’d always heard of corrupt third-world countries where you had to “grease the palm” to get what you need. But it appears to be just as prevalent in this country as well.

    So many of those activities, and, for example, our unconstitutional actions in Libya, just seem to elicit a yawn and a head scratch from those who are supposed to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.”

    Is it too late for the pitchforks and torches?

    Leonardo DaFinchi (8784e5)

  3. people saw bumble screw the US treasury out of a trillion dollars of stimulusness to give to his fat-ass illiterate union whore pals and General Electric and other allies

    now all the little piggies are lining up at bumble’s trough

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  4. “Is it the power that corrupts, or do the corrupt aspire to obtain the power?”

    Leonardo DaFinchi – Obama climbed through Chicago machine politics. Enuf said.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  5. Bamarama put
    Lips to corp’rate money pipe;
    Suck long, hard and deep

    Not the Colonel (90394c)

  6. Still working on the spreadsheets of this quarters results.

    From what I see from early analysis about 40% of his funding so far is from big bundlers no matter how much they want to point to all those under 250.00 donations.

    I am also seeing there are a lot of bundlers from the last time around who don’t seem to be in the hunt this time around.

    Just to match his last election funding each quarter from here on out will have to raise over 150 million and to reach their proclaimed goal of a billion in green he would have to average somewhere near 185 million per quarter.

    Signs that point to maybe ‘The Thrill is Gone’

    Nano (ea6549)

  7. so let me see if I have this right:

    these ‘fatcats’ who have reached the point where they’ve ‘made enough money’, will now be,asked to pony up ‘their fair share’ to re-elect the the most anti-business President in our country’s history-

    Got it. Makes perfect sense.

    Jones (e56838)

  8. Nano,

    As noted, many of the missing bundlers may have jobs in the Administration that bar giving.

    Karl (1c1b70)

  9. “My mammy was a gator, my pappy was a bull, I can whip my weight in wild-cats and drink my belly-full. Who dass to crack a whip wid’ me.”
    Ooooh, not you Stan, you cut to fine a seam for me. Okay folks, step up or shut-up, we’re loaded for bear!

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  10. _____________________________________________

    President Barack Obama has relied more on well-connected Wall Street figures to fund his re-election than he did four years ago

    When it comes to economics and Obama, I’d say this is a fitting example of just how bad he is. His gut biases and preferences are that of an unrepentant leftist, but he’s so in love with himself and his personal power, and the life of the limousine liberal, he can easily end up performing verbal and ideological gymnastics in order to make a round peg fit a square hole.

    Weeklystandard.com, Bill Kristol, February 2010:

    [Liberal New York Times columnist] Paul Krugman is, I think, right to be amazed by Obama’s embrace of the $17 million bonus given to JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon and the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

    If Obama’s idea of moving to the middle politically is to embrace Wall Street’s too-big-to-fail banks, he’s crazy. Usually Republicans are the party of Big Business and Democrats of Big Government, and the public’s hostility to both more or less evens the politics out. But if Obama now becomes the spokesman for Big Government intrusiveness and the apologist for Big Business irresponsibility all at once–good luck with that.

    And look at the tone-deafness of Obama’s comments about the bonuses:

    “President Barack Obama said he doesn’t ‘begrudge’ the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay….

    First of all, as Krugman points out, “irresponsible behavior by baseball players hasn’t brought the world economy to the brink of collapse.” Nor has the federal government spent billions (trillions?) bailing out baseball owners after they signed foolish contracts. Nor does it guarantee baseball owners’–or players’–future solvency.

    IOW, the guy now in the White House truly is the worst of both worlds.

    Mark (411533)

  11. One example, Phil Angelides, who recently gave an ‘in kind contribution’ in the manner of a report that whitewashed F&F, in the economic crisis, also
    contributed to the campaign.

    ian cormac (d380ce)

  12. Phil has always been a political whore who would sell his sister to get a plum job.

    AD-RtR/OS! (c887fc)

  13. That would be former California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, who is currently the Chair of The Apollo Alliance and Obama’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC).

    In a report released in March 2011, the (FCIC) found that “reckless” Wall Street firms, an abundance of cheap credit and “weak” federal regulators caused the crisis.

    “This financial crisis could have been avoided. Let us be clear,” chairman Phil Angelides said. “The record is replete with evidence of failures. None of what happened was an act of God.”

    Angelides’ report failed to note the role of Barney Frank and Chris Dodds in precipitating the financial crisis, or to note that Senator Barack Obama was a major recipient of campaign contributions from the corrupt GSOs.

    ropelight (2e7c50)

  14. Aw, Obama is just being realistic: He knows that thanks to his economic policies there won’t be many small donors who can afford to kick in $250, $100, or even $20, so he has no choice but to raise his money from the same fatcats that he has been criticizing all these years.

    JVW (39c649)

  15. Amy Winehouse died today.

    SHOCKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Icy Texan (90394c)

  16. It’s like a protection racket: nice little giant corporation/bank/financial house you have there. It would be ashame if the gubmint had to break it. So pony up suckah!

    And they do.

    Comanche Voter (0e06a9)

  17. I love Karen Carpenter. The song “Superstar”, still gives me the chills. Her voice ruled.

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  18. The financial services industry is wired into this White House just as it was wired into Clinton and GW Bush’s as well. One reason is the huge amount of cash thrown off by these businesses. Bob Rubin’s bail out of bond holders of Mexican debt in the early 90s provided the last brick in the wall of moral hazard. He put he full faith and credit of the US behind these speculators. They couldn’t lose.

    Another momentous event in Goldman’s history was the Mexican bailout of 1995. Rubin drew criticism in Congress for using a Treasury Department account under his personal control to distribute $20 billion to bail out Mexican bonds, of which Goldman was a key holder.[13] On November 22, 1994, the Mexican Bolsa stock market had admitted Goldman Sachs and one other firm to operate on that market.[14] The 1994 economic crisis in Mexico threatened to wipe out the value of Mexico’s bonds held by Goldman Sachs.

    The next step was the CDO bubble.

    Mike K (8f3f19)

  19. What’s bizarre is that Obama’s last press conference seemed to have the outright intention of scaring Wall Street into a collapse next week.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  20. Obama just couldn’t be creating a crisis so he could exploit it, that would be something only a Chicago thug like Rahm Emanuel would do.

    ropelight (2e7c50)

  21. #9 Comment by Eli Wakefield — 7/23/2011 @ 11:32 am

    That was a “Strange” comment.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  22. That was a “Strange” comment.
    Comment by Machinist — 7/23/2011 @ 4:07 pm

    Just O-mah/archer/rhodesian/tamandua/etc… with more sockpuppet fun.

    Stashiu3 (44da70)

  23. You know those scripts/programs that allow you to ignore some commenters? I need one that will alert me to posts by Stashiu3, Machinist, DRJ, Dana, SPQR, and a few others. It’s getting tough to wade through the sockpuppets and oddballs.

    Which may be the reason they post, of course—to dilute out the good stuff. Oh well.

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  24. Well my whole world seems so cold today

    All the magics’s gone away

    And our time together melts away

    Like the sad melody I play

    Well I don’t want to drift forever

    In the shadow of your leaving me

    So I’ll light another cigarette

    AND TRY TO REMEMBER TO FORGET…

    – Lowell George

    Beat dat, Eli!

    ColonelHaiku (8a1a1f)

  25. Now someone is name-jacking.

    JD (85b089)

  26. I beg your indulgence… in a mood this Saturday afternoon… change of pace…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ozdEgV0-M&feature=related

    ColonelHaiku (8a1a1f)

  27. haiku feelin’ the
    funk, so pissed off about the
    state of the nation

    ColonelHaiku (8a1a1f)

  28. The line was from The movie “The Kentuckian” and it was delivered by Glen Strange, the actor who played Sam the bartender in “Gunsmoke” and Frankenstein’s monster after Karloff.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  29. There’s an intermediate step, as part of the ‘plunge protection team, in the aftermath of Soro’s little game of ‘Casino Royale’ is South Asian currencies, Geithner was a party to the total abolition of moral hazard. Rubin, went on to peddle
    subprime debt to places like Greece, as part of CitiCorps’s European division

    ian cormac (d380ce)

  30. Forget it Jake it’s hypocrisy.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  31. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

    Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

    Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.

    And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

    Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.

    Senator Barack Obama
    Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
    March 16, 2006

    Sen Barack Obama, Liar-in-Chief (318f81)

  32. I get my money on Survivor’s Benefit and I believe the GOP should sign a bill into law separating SS from Survivors Benefits if obama the hypocrite doesn’t like it Tough shat.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  33. Notice though Obama has gone to the well way more often than he has in the past. And the Wall Street guys are giving less and less often. Wall Street gives to both parties to hedge their bets.They are oligarchs. Government under both parties is more inclined to listen to big business than small business.

    But increasingly Wall Street is finally realizing that Obama’s rhetoric is not simply cover on his left flank, but his true beliefs. Fewer Wall Streeters are giving Obama money thatn in the past. Ultimately for all his supposed fund-raising prowess Obama is maxing out his big donors very early. If the economy continuies on this car wreck path, they are not going to give him much more going forward, neither directly nor in bundles.

    Further, who ever the GOP nominee is had best raise holy hell about foreign and unnamed contributions, something Maverick Mccain failed to do, lest he be called raycest.Mccain 2008 might have been the worst run campaign in history.

    Bugg (ea1809)

  34. That may have been because Schmidt his campaign manager, told us after the election, at a seminar
    at the U of Delaware, where he would go on to teach
    a course with David ‘What Unemployment’ Plouffe, that the Obama campaign ‘reminded him of the idealism of RFK’

    ian cormac (d380ce)

  35. He needs to max out his donors as quickly as possible so that he can abscond with the largest pile possible when he pulls out of the election citing bad polls and stress.

    AD-RtR/OS! (c887fc)

  36. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

    Man, you know it’s bad when you wish it had only increased by that much.

    Another Chris (c983db)

  37. AC – that would be about 2.25 years under Barcky’s current trajectory.

    JD (318f81)

  38. Wall Street will contribute to him in 201 2like the sheeple they are.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  39. Colonel, that was a righteous post! Touche’

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  40. Machinist, you rock! You did your homework! Dang, what a movie, hope each of you fellow-bloggers rent it or buy it. Lancaster gives a burly two-fisted performance and Matthau as Stan Bodine(in his first role), was sensational as the sadistic “bull-whip cracking” saloon-keeper. Good night folks.

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  41. Eli RAWKS!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  42. No homework needed. As a fan of Glenn Strange and Douglas Spencer I know that movie well. Spencer in particular is one of the few American actors with the range to rival some of the great British actors.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  43. Comment #31: “a sign of leadership failure”—well the Bamster is intimately familiar with that. Nobody can say that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about when he uses those words. He knows how to do it.

    Comanche Voter (0e06a9)

  44. I just saw an obscure, but excellent film on TCM called the “Gangster”, with Walter Matthau. He wrote directed and stars in this grainy, 65 minute long film. It is real vintage stuff, with supporting actors that are “wooden”, but work throughout. I woulf love to get this wacky number on DVD.

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  45. I am curious how many names you plan on commenting under.

    JD (85b089)

  46. woulf lovin’ eli
    suckle at hairy teat like
    romulus remus?

    ColonelHaiku (8a1a1f)

  47. I’m curious how many names you plan on commenting under?

    46,225 in the next 15 years.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  48. Damn right they give Obama money. He picks the winners and losers. Just ask GE, GM, Chrysler,etc.

    AZ Bob Tucson (aa856e)

  49. Phillip Pine and Warren Stevens, both exceptional character actors. Both starred in Twilight Zone masterpieces. Pine in “the four of us are dying” and “dead man’s shoes” with Warren Stevens, in the lead. These are my two favorite twilight zone episodes. Also, “the mirror” with Peter Falk. He gives a hammy performance but he is always effective. Also, Roddy Mcdowell in the original Night Gallery. “The Cemetery” with McDowell and Ossie Davis as Osmond Portefoy. He continues to bait Davis with Portefoy, “oh Portefy”. “If it isn’t Osmond Portefoy”, “as I live and breathe, Osmond Portefoy”. McDowell is flawless.

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  50. The “fatcats” are the “international bankers” who are also all “33rd degree masons”. From what I have been able to deduce, they cut up the planet into various spheres of influence, sometime after the first world war. Depending on the resources and stability of the economy, of each soon to be exploited country, they began to play “global monopoly”, in a previously unprecedented way. Watch the film, “The Formula” with Bud Brando and George C. Scott. It is an eye-opening piece of fiction that successfully explains the oil business from the stand point of “Titan Oil”. Adam Steiffel (oil tycoon) prophetically states to detective George C. Scott, “We’re not in the oil business, we’re in the oil shortage business”. Petroleum prices rise and fall at the whimsy of these tycoons and John Q. Citizen is paying at the pump, like a well trained beagle.

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  51. Nothing like a great conspiracy theory.

    JD (318f81)

  52. Or multiple identities.

    JD (318f81)

  53. The best Twilight Zone EVER was “The Invaders” with Agnes Moorehead.

    “To Serve Man” might be second but a good case could be made for several others.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  54. #53,Comment by Eli Wakefield — 7/24/2011 @ 7:40 pm

    Sorry, that’s not even TZ level fiction. More like Star Trek or Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  55. Maybe it was Wall Street fatcats who committed the oslo terrorist attack.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  56. Inspired by Sarah Palin?

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  57. JD would know all about multiple identities.

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  58. Yeah inspired by Sarah Palin and Bush and Ice Cream.

    Wow are you accusing JD of having multiple personalities?

    DohBiden (d54602)

  59. Eli that 2nd question was for you.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  60. There’s actually a piece of science fiction,that explains that explains the delusional world we
    are living in, A Doctor Who two part episode, called
    the ‘Sound of Drums’ which explains how Britain elects a mysterious figure as PM, John Saxon, who
    turns out to be the Master, his primary adversary.

    ian cormac (886e1a)

  61. I was referring to jd getting bent out shape over my Internet handle. I didn’t know I was allocated only one when blogging.

    Eli wakefield (7a001c)

  62. Jd has more Internet identities than a hobo has head lice.

    Eli wakefield (7a001c)

  63. “I didn’t know I was allocated only one when blogging.”
    Comment by Eli wakefield — 7/24/2011 @ 8:42 pm

    At the bottom of the page.

    “Commenters who do not use a consistent name, and/or who use a proxy to post, are subject to banning”

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  64. Project much Yelverton?

    DohBiden (d54602)

  65. This is my permanent new user name.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  66. I get my jollies watching Yelverton maul JD. LOL!

    Eli wakefield (7a001c)

  67. I get my jollies wanking off to Turbotax Timmy.

    FIFY.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  68. Good night you charming bloggers.

    Eli wakefield (7a001c)

  69. Good night and don’t let Turbotax timmy bite you although you might like it.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  70. BTW Uma Thurman supports Gun Control honestly she looks pretty ,too bad.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  71. Eli’s a-comin’
    Eli’s a-comin’ and he’s comin’ to git ya
    Get down on your knees

    Icy Texan (1cb89f)

  72. woulf lovin’ eli
    bark at the effin’ moon he
    woulf in sheep’s clothing

    ColonelHaiku (8a1a1f)

  73. Why do you hate roaches, SPQR?

    eli/tamandau/rhodesian/etal is back to making shlt up, again. Typical. The only thing Yelverton has ever mauled is a plate of veggie paella, and the Rogaine display. He may have mauled the MTSU plagiarism standards too.repeatedly.

    JD (109425)

  74. Eli also mauled that plate of ribs Mihell Onumbnuts was about eat…………….oh shat.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  75. Touche’. JD-that was funny. Rogaine!, funny stuff man. I guess I’ll stick with Eli, I ran it up the flagpole, I kinda like it.

    Eli (4de175)

  76. Getting back to my original statement on international bankers and the “oil shortage business”. I stand by it, and you have yet to refute it. If it’s mere conspiracy, it went over real well with the rest of the world.

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  77. Your a moron.

    There is a common sense shortage.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  78. That must be code for I can’t disprove it, so I’ll resort to pre-adoleascent put-downs. Boo-hoo.

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  79. I love watching Yelverton take JD apart in sections Doh, “bone-by-bone”. He wipes him out as casually as I pour a cup of coffee! The man is an intellectual, has a doctorate and is a very talented musician. The best part is, he never resorts to name-calling.

    Eli Wakefield (4de175)

  80. That much sarcasm in one place creates the danger of creating a singularity.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  81. Did Eli cross the streams?

    AD-RtR/OS! (5a3560)

  82. Never? Really? Are you trying to prove how stupid you are, or are you just dishonest?

    If cognitive dissonance could be converted to energy, this troll could power the entire eastern seaboard.

    JD (0d2ffc)

  83. Well, they will need something to replace those coal-fired generating plants.

    AD-RtR/OS! (5a3560)

  84. He never resorts to name-calling except when he compares Bush to Hitler

    Eli LGF is missing you.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  85. I will address the BIG OIL CONSPIRACY right after I debate TRUTHER CONSPIRACY with Bluebell or whatever she’s called.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  86. In case anyone missed it, in #80 Eli admitted that he’s Yelverton.

    Icy Texan (1cb89f)

  87. Don’t forget Sarah Palin leads the third reich along with the Alessi brothers.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  88. No, I am not Yelverton. I just enjoy watching him take JD and a half dozen other bloggers apart section by section. His arguments are cogent, focused and reasonable. And, he never resorts to name calling unlike jd, who is inferior in every way. The rogaine crack was funny, almost as funny as watching Yelverton “manhandle” JD at every turn.

    Eli (4de175)

  89. You are Yelverton you See You Next Thursday.

    And comparing Bush to Hitler is name calling or do I need to dumb it down for your atrophied brain.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  90. Furthermore, you obviously have contempt for the man because he is an intellectual and possesses a doctorate. He can school the lot of you.

    Eli (4de175)

  91. Furthermore I like to insert my lips to Yelvertons rear end.

    FIFY lovely.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  92. That is parody, right? He has a high school degree, and the rest is in ukelele lessons.

    JD (0d2ffc)

  93. Duh!Biden, you must be pretty “thick”, almost as thick as your troll sidelick jd. I never made this statement. You are a prevaricator as well as a juvenile debater. Does your inability to be intellectually honest have any restraint? Duh, why don’t you go lose another debate to Yelverton, better still try growing a conscience.

    Eli (4de175)

  94. How is plagiarism compatible with a superior intellect and demonstrated academic achievement? Discuss.

    JD (2da347)

  95. Jd, your need to slate this man is “played” and oh-so pathetic.

    Eli (4de175)

  96. His academic achievements are obvious, he’s a professor and talented musician. Just because you disagree with his politics or value system does not mean you have to resort to the mendacious name calling that has become your “hallmark”.

    Eli (4de175)

  97. You are a bunghole lickin brown-nosing is pathetic. He is a fraud. A hate filled angry plagiarist that spams links to think regress, mediamatterz, and rawstory, and showing your intellectual capacity, that qualifies him as an academic? His plagiarism and name calling is legend. You beclown yourself under every one of your names, showing your cowardice.

    JD (6e25b4)

  98. No, I am not Yelverton. I just enjoy watching him take JD and a half dozen other bloggers apart section by section. His arguments are cogent, focused and reasonable. And, he never resorts to name calling unlike jd, who is inferior in every way. The rogaine crack was funny, almost as funny as watching Yelverton “manhandle” JD at every turn.

    The need to perceive themselves as heroic vanquishers of their betters is hilarious, as is the ritualistic Victory Mincing™.

    Good show, Woulverton!

    ColonelHaiku (8a1a1f)

  99. Oh, such noble, thoughtful words. Words of charity “from the most hate-filled, acid tongued nit-wit, parasitizing troll on the internet”! Jd, gets your meds reworked.

    Eli (4de175)

  100. I am a parasitic troll. That is rich, given the history and multiple personalities displayed by this one.

    JD (822109)

  101. Corretion, “GET” your meds reworked, sooner rather than later.

    Eli (4de175)

  102. I work here is done?

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  103. So, Eli, explain to us how repeated plagiarism is consistent with your claim of academic achievement. Or posting as your father, or as your girlfriend, or as members of the opposite sex, or using rawstory or thinkregress, or mediamatters as news sources. Apparently you do not understand the difference between an academic and a musician. Willie is a fine technician with a lute. An academic that does not make him.

    JD (109425)

  104. Please man, I need to relax and listen to some Strauss, calms the nerves-“you should try it JD”.

    Eli (4de175)

  105. William Yelverton
    He is just so dreamy, sigh
    Now I am verklempt

    elissa (2eabb4)

  106. So, you cannot respond, as that does not fit with your dishonest narrative. SHOCKA. I am off to train for my upcoming triathlon, now that it is no longer 95+ outside. See ya. Sorry to everyone for engaging this clown. I am weak.

    JD (d56362)

  107. Elissa comes through,
    with wit and clever talent,
    She pwns poor Eli.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  108. Ooooh Verklempt, aren’t we the dazzling little fraulein. I’m speechless…

    Eli (4de175)

  109. I noticed Yelverton is not only an academic, complete with doctorate, but quite the accomplished athlete and runner. The man is a true specimen of the renaissance.

    Eli (4de175)

  110. If only!!

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  111. eli nadadad
    the woolverton shrink to fit
    the Woolite® diet

    ColonelHaiku (8a1a1f)

  112. I noticed Yelverton is not only an academic, complete with doctorate, but quite the accomplished athlete and runner. The man is a true specimen of the renaissance.

    Comment by Eli — 7/25/2011 @ 5:17 pm

    I noticed that he tends to sockpuppet his own fans and girlfriends, and justify it to himself as trolling.

    He’s probably the angriest guy on the internet half the time.

    And no, he’s not an athlete. He deleted my comments which were very polite and proved his arguments were incorrect.

    He’s the opposite of an academic.

    And it’s not really possible to have a doctorate unless you’ve increased mankind’s knowledge. The fake doctorates are just puffery and money making. A real PHD has actually improved the corpus of human understanding, not played songs in a coffee shop with his students.

    Anyway, if Yelverton was such a stud he wouldn’t be so afraid of me. I’m a polite commenter who makes my points plainly. That shouldn’t scare any honest person.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  113. It seems unwholesome and certainly distasteful for someone to be promoting himself this way.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  114. Oh but don’t you know
    specimen usually
    needs a plastic cup

    elissa (2eabb4)

  115. I recall seeing a pic of Yelverton, and he was pretty chubby. Sometimes he’s not. I decided against linking the picture… just seems rude, but I forgot to delete the ‘he’s no athlete’ text that went with it.

    Anyway, this fawning for him is hilarious. Greenwald was worse, but it’s still hilarious.

    What is it about these losers who think shilling for themselves is impressive?

    Dustin (b7410e)

  116. Everyone must be terrified of you “dustbin”, you are a “terrible visage of authority to behold”. LOL!

    Eli (4de175)

  117. My, my dustbin, all that recall of Dr. Yelverton! Complete with your knowlege of his pictures and “weight”. My, my…

    Eli (4de175)

  118. People are not “terrified” of Dustin but he does get a lot of respect. You do not.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  119. Google a “tribute to Rocky Marciano”, on youtube. 49-0, with 43 ko’s. The greatest heavyweight of all-time. Probably the greatest fighter of all-time. He was a 200 pound Italian tank. Archie Moore said that wherever he hit you hurt”. It was like being beaten with rocks, over and over again”. He trained relentlessly. The man was capable of fighting for 20-30 rounds if necessary, and every punch was a haymaker. No probing shots, “the rock” was looking to destroy his oppponent with every sledge-hammer thrown. He was a legend and a great- great American. I salute the ROCK!

    Eli (4de175)

  120. Eli, I’m not here to scare you or somehow establish how cool I am. I think that your effort to win by establishing how awesome you are is incredibly pathetic.

    I just want to discuss the issues. Sometimes I’m right, sometimes I’m wrong. When someone proves me wrong (And it happens all the time), I just admit I learned something. It’s no big deal.

    I could care less if you’re not impressed by how awesome I am. In fact, I think you would be mentally ill to be impressed by comments on the internet.

    You fundamentally do not get it. By using the ‘he’s more awesome than you, therefore I win the argument’ card, which you’ve used several times, you simply show that you’re absurd and irrational.

    Liberals think conservatives are inferior and evil and horrible. Conservatives think liberals are too stupid to have a straight discussion. This thread is a great case study.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  121. And thanks, Machinist. That’s very kind of you to say.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  122. Simple facts, Sir. Self evident.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  123. Machinehead and dustbin, I am not here to impress either. The problem is each of you, along with jd and a bunch of other packhounds are trolling around constantly, looking for someone to humiliate and put-down. You are incapable of even posting a statement without calling me “irrational”, a moron, “stupid” a troll or “I’m mentally ill”. My friend, you are “nasty”, along with machinehead and jd and the rest of your crew of bullies. I’ve caught jd’s nasty rant on many other blogs, probably you as well. The blog and pseudonym may change, but your nasty, pathetic rant is apparent for all to sicken at. Grow a conscience man and get some new, less caustic material. You also machinehead.

    Eli (4de175)

  124. The Yelverton experience only gets more bizarre.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  125. Spend some time reflecting on the thoughtful, well thought out posts of Dr. Yelverton. How much time does he spend humiliating someone? Zilch! Thats’ how much time. Nada. You, on the other hand resort to the most atrocious forms of name-calling along with jd. He is by far the worst (jd), but you and a few others are not far behind my friend. If the shoe fits.

    Eli (4de175)

  126. Looks like an especially strong batch of meth hit Yelverton’s neighborhood.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  127. I almost forgot this “charmer”, SPQR. Another twisted bully, looking for someone to devour! “Oh, so nice of you to drop-by SPQR”. LOL!

    Eli (4de175)

  128. He’s on to us, stalking and haunting him, in many disguises and sockpuppets, harassing him and picking on him, keeping him from ascending to his proper place above us, a living God.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  129. Comment by SPQR — 7/25/2011 @ 6:07 pm

    Not strong enough, or we would be rid of him.

    AD-RtR/OS! (5a3560)

  130. I’ve always thought you could tell a lot about a person/group by the fan/followers that orbit said person/group.

    How ya doing, Mac? 😉 I’ve missed out on the…harassing and stalking and…lassoing pre-emerging demi-gawds? Busy day, I see…

    ppk_pixie (1df0c8)

  131. A treat to see you, Ma’am.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  132. I agree with you.

    Machinist (b6f7da)

  133. Goodnight “internet bullies”, it’s been fun. Before retiring, I would like to say, that I look forward to the latest installment of watching JD and some of the “intellectually thick bloggers” who “squat” here 24/7, get splattered by Dr. Yelvertons’ acumen. I love watching him methodicallly grind jd down into fine, inert dust. LOL!

    Eli (4de175)

  134. Yelvertion owned JD?

    😯 I want some of that weed you managed to procure.

    DohBiden (d54602)

  135. It would be easier for the people “who squat here” to “get splattered by Dr. Yelverton’s acumen” and to be awed by his brilliance if Dr. Yelverton was actually able to post here using his own name. But, of course he’s not. All that awesome talent and acumen having to hide behind socks and take on false identities. Never getting the recognition he craves. Nose pressed to the glass. Very sad.

    elissa (2eabb4)

  136. Hypocritical little “sleeza”, why don’t you post using your real name? Oh, thats right, your one of those “thick” squatter cyber-bullies, who runs with the “troll pack”, led by alpha-female jd. LOL!

    Eli (4de175)

  137. “…get splattered by Dr. Yelvertons’ acumen.”

    Sounds like a good way to catch AIDS.

    Dave Surls (28f866)

  138. “His academic achievements are obvious, he’s a professor and talented musician.”

    Who?

    Yelverton???

    Get serious, dude. He’s a “Doctor” of Guitar-picking-ology at West Central Southeast Northern Tennessee Tech, or some such place.

    He is, supposedly, a world class musician…well, that’s what his website says, anyway.

    Dave Surls (28f866)

  139. Well … what a lovely evening this turned out to be!

    Icy Texan (96c6c2)

  140. I’m sure whatever Dr. Yelverton is doing in the world of academia and music is far more meaningfull and enriching , than the negative posts and slating that goes on here. Dave, you reek of jealousy along with jd. How embarassing man. If the shoe fits.

    informed observer (4de175)

  141. He’s the Peter Venkman of musical theory, without the humor, Leo, one of those other trolls, is a disgruntled academic as well, a lecturer in anarchism among other things.

    ian cormac (886e1a)

  142. I’m sure whatever Dr. Yelverton is doing in the world of academia and music [… bla bla bla leave my ‘friend’ alone bla bla bla I hate you so much bla bla bla]

    Comment by informed observer — 7/26/2011 @ 5:34 am

    Thanks for this stunning contribution to the topic of Obama’s failure to do his job or live up to his promises.

    Troll.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  143. He’s the Peter Venkman of musical theory,

    OK, that was damn funny and a superior response.

    I love musicians, but the talented ones are not teaching… they are doing. Nothing wrong with teaching music, though. If you’re not good enough to perform, someone has to explain how to tune and read music. Someone has to plan out the progress of the talented budding artist. Though usually great musicians need very limited assistance. Just my experience with it.

    Saying someone is a doctor in music is actually not much of a compliment even in the music world, but especially not to give them authority over evaluating Obama’s fiscal policies. It’s actually pretty hilarious to see this attempted repeatedly.

    Dustin (b7410e)

  144. Doner dilema.

    Invest in the guy whose gonna win in 2012? Or in the teabaggers, who have managed to climb so high only to show their a$$.

    spartacvs (2d9449)

  145. Hardly a dilemman, Yelverton. Wall Street already owns Obama. Lock, stock and barrel.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  146. Spratacvs is a homophobe.

    DohBiden (d54602)


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